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J. T. OLARKSON. BUGKBOARD.

Patented June 3, 1890 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH T. OLARKSON, OF'AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR TO SAMUEL B. BAILEY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKBOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,260, dated June 3, 1890.

Application l January 22, 1890- Serial 110,337,705. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. OLARKsoN, of Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckboards, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claim.

Said drawing is a perspective view of avehicle of the class known as buekboards, viewed as from the left, or near side, the wheels and shafts being removed.

The object of my invention is to provide a foot-rest so arranged and supported that it shall have a vertical movement (resulting from joltings caused by the unevenness of the traveled way,) coincident, both in point of time and extent, with the seat occupied by the user of the vehicle; and it consists in supporting the foot-rest upon arms that are secured to the buckboard proper (or floor) directly beneath the seat, and which have the same vertical movement as does the seat.

In the accompanying drawing, a represents the hind axle.

b is the forward axle.

c is the head-block, secured to the floor or buckboard proper, marked d.

e is the dash-board, f the seat.

g is the seat-base, curved upward from its center by lines h.

'i is a cross-bar secured to the under side of d, at the lineal center thereof.

jj are arms secured to (1, directly above and having foot-rest 76 secured to them at their front ends.

The rear axle is shown as secured to the buckboard d in the usual manner, and the front axle is secured to the head-block by the usual fifth-wheel Z, and the seat is secured to the center of the buckboard, and having the curved base to allow the free curving of cl when its center is depressed, are each features old and well known.

The arms j j, at their rear ends, are bolted to buckboard d, as shown, the side of seatbase 9 being partially broken away to afford a view of said arms where secured to d. Said arms have a slight abrupt rise, just in front of where they are secured to d, and thence curve gradually upward to where the footrest 7; is secured to them. The object of said rise and upward curve of the arms is to pre-v vent at all times contact of floor at with the arms, except where the latter are bolted to the floor; for otherwisethe down-curving of the lineal center of (Z (which would be equivalent of the up-curving of its ends) would, by contact with said arms at any point in front of where they are secured to (I, send the foot-board k upward with a lever-like or multiplied movement, whereas it is desired that said footboard and the seat shall rise and fall coincidently, both in point of time and extent, so as not to disturb the position of the occupant of the seat, as would result if the seat rose and fell either faster or slower than did the footboard, it being obvious that if the foot-rest was secured directly to d, at the point immediately beneath the position it occupied in the drawing, it would have but a fraction of the vertical movement that would be imparted to the seat.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

In a buckboard, the combination, with spring-board d, of arms j j, having their rear ends rigidly secured to said spring-board near its center, and upturned to be out of contact with the spring-board, except where rigidly secured to it, and having the foot-rest 7.: secured to their front ends, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH T. CLARKSON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. BRIGGS, W. T. CLARKsoN. 

